The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-01

Murfreesboro and Manassas junction and |
Cumberland Gap and field hospital, receive |
these floral offerings of the living soldiers.
But they shall come again, all the dead |
troops We sometimes talk about earthly |
military reviews, such as took place in Paris
in the time Of Marshal Ney, in London in the
time Of Wellington and in our own land, but
what tame things compared with the final re-
view, when all the armies of the ages shall
pass for divine and angelic inspection St
John SAYS the armies of heaven ride on white
horses, and don't know but many of the old
cavalry horses Of earthlyE battle, that
were wounded and worn out in ser
vice, may have resurrection. 1t would
be only fair that, raised up and ennobled,
they would be resurrected for the grand
review Of the Judgment day. It would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
bodies than to reconstruct ours, and I should
be very glad 70 them among the white
horses of apocalyptic vision. Hark to the
trumpet blast, the reveille of the last iudg-
ment! They come up. All the armies of all
lands and all centuries, on which ever side
they fought whether for freedom or despot-
ism, for the right or the wrong. They comet
They comet Darius and Cyrus, and Sennach-
crib and Joshua, and David, leading forth
the armies of scriptural times; Hannibal and
Hamicar leading forth the armies of the
Carthaginians; Victor Emmanuel and Carl
baldi leading ON the armies of the Italians;
Tamerlane and Ghengis Khan followed by the
armies of Asia; Gustavus Adolphus, and
Ptolemy Philopater, and Xerxes. and Alex
ander, and Semiramis, and w Washington, lead
ing battalion after battalion. The dead
American armies of 1776 and 1872, and
100000 of northern and southern dead
i'll
pass on in review The 100000 fallen
in Napoleonic battles, the 100000 Ger
mans fallen in the Thirty Years War,
the Il, 600 900 fallen in the war under Sesos-
iris; the 20. O0O, 900 fallen in the wars of JUS
tinian; the g. 900, 600 fallen in Jewish wars;
the so 600, 600 fallen in the crusades, the 1S0,-
600 900 fallen in the wars with Saracens and
Turks; the IS, 000, 100000 men estimated to
have fallen in battle, enough, according to
one statistician, if they stood four abreast, to
reach clear around the earth 442 times.
But we shall have time to see them pass in
review before the throne of judgment-the
cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the spearmen,
the infantry, the sbarpshooters, the gunners,
| the sappers, the miners, the archers, the
skirmishers, men of all colors. of all epaulets,
of all standards, of all weaponry, of all coun-
| tries. Let the earth be especially balanced to
| hear their tread. Forward Forward Let
the orchestra of the heavenly galleries play. the
grand march, joined by all the fifers, drum
mers and military bands that ever sounded vic
| tory or defeat at Eylau or Borodina, at Mara
thon or Thermopylse, Bunker Hill or York
| town. Solferino or Balaclava, Sedan or Gettys-
| burg, from the time when Joshua halted astron-
| omy above Gideon and Ajalon till the last man
surrendered to Garnet Wolseley at Tel-el-
| Kebir. Nations companies, battalions, ages,
centuries and the universal! Forward in the
| grand review of the judgment! Forward!
Gracious and eternal God On that day may
it be found that we are all marching in the
right regiment and that we carried the right
standard, and that we fought under the right
commander, all heaven, some on amethystine
battlement and others standing in the shin
ing gates, some on pearly shore and others on
turreted heights, giving US the resounding
million voiced cheer: 40 him that over
comethI" Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting, and let the
whole earth be filled with his glory Amen
and ameni